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EdTechRoundUp Weekly #46 – Web browsers, Internet filtering in schools & technical skills needed by educators

ETRU WeeklyThis week’s meeting was led for the first time by Daniel Needlestone, who did a great job! In this week’s meeting we discussed web browsers, internet filtering in schools and the technical skills required by educators.

 
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Collated the links from this week’s meeting are available via our Diigo account.

 

Here’s a link to the relevant ETRU wiki page for this week’s meeting.

 

The music sample in the podcast is taken from Alice Russell’s ‘What We Want’

EdTechRoundUp Weekly #45 – Google Wave, Google Apps, Digital Signage and Mobile Devices

ETRU WeeklyThis week’s meeting was led by Dai Barnes. In this week’s meeting we talk about Google Wave, the use of Twitter as a conference backchannel, online whiteboards, Google Apps, how people access ETRU, digital signage and the use of mobile devices in schools.

 
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Collated the links from this week’s meeting should be available here.

 

Here’s a link to the relevant ETRU wiki page for this week’s meeting.

The music sample in the podcast is taken from Alice Russell’s ‘What We Want’

EdTechRoundUp Weekly #43 – Waves, Robots, Videos and tweaking filters

ETRU WeeklyThis week’s meeting was led by Kate. In this week’s meeting we talk about the our first experiences of using Google Wave, using Robotics in schools, uploading videos to VLEs and how schools are adjusting filtering levels to allow access to websites.

 
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Dai Barnes has collated the links from this week’s meeting here.

Here’s a link to the relevant ETRU wiki page for this week’s meeting.

The music sample in the podcast is taken from Alice Russell’s ‘What We Want’

EdTechRoundUp Weekly #40 – Let’s be productive!

This week’s meeting was led by Dai Barnes. In this week’s meeting we look at the tools teachers can use to increase their productivity, promoting literacy with e-book readers, ETRU teachmeet, computer programming for primary age children and a discussion about what resources people are embedding into sharepoint.

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wikispacesHere’s a link to the relevant ETRU wiki page for this week’s meeting.

The music sample in the podcast is taken from Alice Russell’s ‘What We Want’

 
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EdTechRoundUp Weekly #33 – Getting more bang for your buck

ETRU WeeklyThis week’s meeting was led by Dai Barnes. In this week’s meeting we discussed ‘Getting more bang for your buck’. This looked at the pros and cons of purchasing equipment outright vs leasing, buying netbooks and whether or not Linux could be used as a successful and free OS alternative in schools.

Many thanks to Tony Sheppard for grabbing the audio from the FlashMeeting!

 
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Nobody has collated the links from this week’s meeting yet, but eventually they should appear here.

 

Here’s a link to the relevant ETRU wiki page for this week’s meeting.

 

The music sample in the podcast is taken from Alice Russell’s ‘What We Want’

EdTechRoundUp Weekly #32 – MindMaps, Social Networks and Google Teacher Academy UK

ETRU WeeklyThis week’s meeting was led by Doug Belshaw. We discussed the use of collaborative MindMaps, creating social networks in the classroom and the exciting possibility of a Google Teacher Academy coming to the UK.

Many thanks to Tony Sheppard for grabbing the audio from the FlashMeeting!

 
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Nobody has collated the links from this week’s meeting yet, but eventually they should appear here.

 

Here’s a link to the relevant ETRU wiki page for this week’s meeting.

 

The music sample in the podcast is taken from Alice Russell’s ‘What We Want’

EdTechRoundUp Weekly #31 – Planning for next year and a look at what we want from elearning.

ETRU WeeklyThis week’s meeting was led by Dai Barnes. We discussed Planning for next year and a look at what we want from elearning and how we can achieve this with the tools currently available.

Many thanks to Tony Sheppard for grabbing the audio from the FlashMeeting!

 
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Dai Barnes has collated the links on Diigo and you can find them here.

Here’s a link to the relevant ETRU wiki page for this week’s meeting.

The music sample in the podcast is taken from Alice Russell’s ‘What We Want’

EdTechRoundUp Weekly #30 – Google Wave, VLEs, Google Squared and Wolfram Alpha

ETRU WeeklyThis week’s meeting was led by Dai Barnes. We discussed Google Wave, whether VLEs have had their day and compared Google Squared and Wolfram Alpha.

Many thanks to Tony Sheppard for grabbing the audio from the FlashMeeting!

 
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Nobody has collated the links from this week’s meeting yet, but eventually they should appearhere.

 

Here’s a link to the relevant ETRU wiki page for this week’s meeting.

The music sample in the podcast is taken from Alice Russell’s ‘What We Want’

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EdTechRoundUp Weekly #29 – compulsory Masters degrees for new teachers, an eLearning vision & a general edtech discussion

ETRU WeeklyThis week’s meeting was led by Dai Barnes. We discussed the possibility of a compulsory Masters degree for all new teachers and what we would like to include in an eLearning strategy.

Many thanks to Tony Sheppard for grabbing the audio from the FlashMeeting!

 
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Dai Barnes has collated the links from this week’s meeting here.

 

Here’s a link to the relevant ETRU wiki page for this week’s meeting.

The music sample in the podcast is taken from Alice Russell’s ‘What We Want’

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EdTechRoundUp Weekly #28 – TeachMeet Midlands 2009, ETRU Special planning & a general edtech discussion

ETRU WeeklyThis week’s meeting was led by Doug Belshaw. Those of use who attended TeachMeet Midlands 2009 (either physically, or virtually through the FlashMeeting) discussed our experiences. There was some further planning for an upcoming ETRU Special, and then the rest of our time was dedicated to general edtech news, views and opinions! :-)

Many thanks to Tony Sheppard for grabbing the audio from the FlashMeeting!

 
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Dai Barnes has collated the links from this week’s meeting here.

 

Here’s a link to the relevant ETRU wiki page for this week’s meeting.

 

The music sample in the podcast is taken from Alice Russell’s ‘What We Want’

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